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Automate Excel Process with ETL

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You inherit a recurring reporting task that depends on manually cleaning, merging, and formatting Excel files before loading the results into a downstream dataset. You want to replace the spreadsheet steps with a repeatable pipeline so the process is faster, less error-prone, and easier to audit.

Question

Describe a time you automated a manual Excel-based process using an ETL tool or Python script.